CTA's Blue Line gets help from L.B. Foster

The Rail Products business unit of L.B. Foster Co. is supplyingtransit rail and associated products forChicago Transit Authority's Dearborn Subway Project under a $6.5 million contract announced Thursday.

L.B. Foster has begun delivery of 80-foot rail sections, direct fixation fasteners, insulated joints, and contact rail insulators for the long delayed project,which will eliminate slow zones on CTA's Blue Line. The project is scheduled to complete construction in December.